Do you find that some things just make you light up with ideas?
Inspiration is where you find it, although many find it in nature and
taking a bigger view on things. Perhaps the greatest thing you can ever do
is to inspire other people. If you can do this well, you will be a true
leader. This is the secret of the world’s best teachers.

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Quotes

‘Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they
seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an
unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake
up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from
my bed and I’d rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the
inspiration dimmed.’

‘And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the
proportion of gold in King Hiero’s crown by seeing the water flowing over the
bathing-stool. He leaped up as one possessed or inspired, crying, “I have found
it! Eureka!”.’